mary - patty griffin

Heard this on the radio on Mother’s Day and was instantly weeping. Why? Hard to say. The beauty and grace in the invisible labor of motherhood, of women in general? Mary as a grieving mother, just like so many other grieving mothers? Jesus as an ordinary young man, dead too soon? Such a beautiful song on a beautiful album.

Jesus says Mother I couldn’t stay another day longer / He flies right by and leaves a kiss upon her face / while the angels are singing his praises in a blaze of glory / Mary stays behind and starts cleaning up the place